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06/15/2026

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06/14/2026

This could be the most precedent-setting dam case in the history of the U.S. What will the judges do?

Read: https://www.denverpost.com/2026/06/14/gross-reservoir-denver-water-appeals-court/

06/13/2026

This is the Colorado River right now:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZiHoSqOhBg/?igsh=MXN1eGllM3E2amk0Nw==

06/11/2026

"NO DAM, NO METHANE" -- Love these kids in Albania!

Post: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7470808748597366784/

06/11/2026

“These horrific plans are an affront to the millions of Americans who treasure Big Bend. Politicians who’ve never set foot here are signing a death warrant for this wild and beautiful place.” -- Laiken Jordahl Center for Biological Diversity

Center for Biological Diversity: TERLINGUA, Texas— The Department of Homeland Security today waived dozens of environmental laws to speed construction of border barriers and roads through Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park. The move marks the first time in American history that t...

06/11/2026

Our Boulder Creek program is watchdogging this!

"The study did recommend that the university evaluate sanitary sewers and storm pipes to verify that no unintended sanitary cross connections with human waste exist."

A third-party study found that there does not appear to be a single cause of elevated E. coli levels at a University of Colorado Boulder outfall that’s releasing stormwater into Boulder Creek.

06/10/2026

"What would the Colorado River say? It would say, 'Help!, Help!" -- Gary Wockner

Check out this video from the Systemic Justice Project, a Think Tank at Harvard Law School.

Who Speaks for the River? explores the emerging movement to recognize legal rights for rivers, focusing on the Colorado River and the people advocating for i...

06/10/2026

The cost of water along the northern Front Range of Colorado is rising....and rising.

Northern Water has lost more town members for its $2.7 billion, two-dam project in northern Colorado, but may attract Fort Collins interest.

06/08/2026

Great piece!

“Hiking the side canyons is like going through ecological time travel,” said Eric Balken, executive director of the Glen Canyon Institute, as he hiked up Davis Gulch, once submerged by Lake Powell.

06/07/2026

Dale Sinquah, a tribal council member for Arizona’s Hopi tribe, is among a growing number of people who view the Colorado as a living being that should have the same rights as a person.

“If you look at it at that level and you allow it to, then it starts changing the ways in which you think about it, and maybe your actions,” he said.

Water negotiators, river enthusiasts, Native tribes and lots of lawyers convened at the University of Colorado Law School on Thursday to take stock of the future of the dwindling Colorado River.